Then, about three weeks ago, Smith got married. She knew she’d be moving a lot of the items from the wedding to the store — things like chairs and decorative jars and such — so following the honeymoon, she and some of her employees set about rearranging the store.

“As we were moving stuff around,” Smith recalls, “a bottom shelf was empty and I said, ‘Oh my god, we can do a cereal bar!’ ”

“We already had the different milks for the drinks we make,” she said. “So it’s not really a risk adding all this. It just made sense.”

Smith started with five cereals — Lucky Charms, Honey Bunches of Oats, Honey Graham Oh’s, Trix and a granola cereal she’d already been offering. She polled employees and customers to determine their favorite cereals.

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“Trying to pick just five types of cereal, because that’s all you have room for at the time? It was so hard,” she said.

Smith has since added two more cereals — Fruity Pebbles and Cookie Crisp — and hopes to include more in the future.

“We just have to get more jars,” Smith said. “And we might change them up sometimes.”

Customers can have seven kinds of milk on their cereal — whole, skim, half-and-half, soy, rice, coconut or a house-made almond milk. The shop also offers flavored milks such as chocolate, strawberry and toffee.

The coffee shop is also working on adding toppings like almonds, raisins and bananas for the cereals. It already has rainbow sprinkles that can be added in.

There are also several vegan cereal options, according to Smith.

Smith hasn’t checked her sales figures, but judging from the amount of cereal left in each jar, she estimates the top cereal seller is Honey Bunches of Oats, followed by Fruity Pebbles, and then a tie between Trix and Cookie Crisp.

The cereal bar obviously won’t eclipse the shop’s coffee sales, but Smith says she still believes there’s a market for it. Smith says they sold four bowls of cereal the day the cereal bar opened.

“I think people get excited about cereal — adults do — because it’s nostalgic,” she said. “For me, I have two kids, and we never have more than two kinds of cereal in the house. But here at Grounds for Coffee we have seven different cereals, and we have a nice selection of milks.”

If Smith has one complaint, it’s that customers have been extremely boring thus far in their choices at the new cereal bar. They’re not mixing cereals into exciting new combinations, and they’re just getting plain old regular milk on their plain old regular cereal.

“Here we are mixing it up with different cereal scoops and milks, and everybody else is just boring,” she said. “We sold four bowls of cereal that first day, but every one was just a boring bowl of one kind of cereal, with no flavored milk.”